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[Patashu]

The parameters under F8 have different effects on different objects, and it would be good if someone with the experience could compile what it does on each object.

For instance, I want to make rocket launchers with different firing rates, but all I've found is that time-mod controls how fast/slow it animates (e.g. if you set it to 100 rockets fire instantly with no warning) and float prop 1, if set to a negative number, makes it fire ultra fast.

And why is it that whenever I set a saw launcher (forest tileset)'s start time to anything except 0.00, when I test the level with F1 and come back and check it's been set to 0.00 again?
Hmm...
Float prop 1 for saw launchers seems to be delay after launching.
And F10 pauses the game!

[HybridStars]

Saw launchers can be adjusted with Time Mod. Time Mod 5.00 makes it fire at a considerably challenging rate.

[Patashu]

What time mod adjusts isn't the delay, but how quickly the animation happens. Even if you set time mod to infinity it'll only shoot a certain amount faster by skipping the animation.

[HybridStars]

I read that on the original post =_=

F8 does wonders for pretty much anything :L

[kyle273]

Here's a quick one I threw together.
First, some quick definitions. If you haven't programmed before, and INT (or integer) is a whole number. a Float (Floating point variable) is a decimal number

Launcher:
Start time: Delays the blade launch (bugs out the animation and sound)
Time mod: Animation speed of firing (Caps how fast a blade can fire out) Multiplies factor.
Float 1: Delay between each shot. Capped by the Time Mod. Seconds

Swinging Saw
Time mod: Speed and Direction of Saw. Multiplies factor. (Default is 1.55555 seconds for small, and 5 seconds for large)

Fan
Time mod: Animation speed. Multiplies the value.
float 1: Intensity of the fan (negative = suction)
float 2: Area of the fan. (Must be > than 0) (Pixles)


Key:
Float 1: Speed of opening blocks (Seconds)
Int 1: X coordinate of the block to open
Int 2: y Coordinate of the block to open

Laser:
Start Time: Where the animation starts. (Set to anything but 0 to get rid of the charge up sound)
Float 1: Hold Time. (Sec) How long it fires.
Float 2: Reset time. (sec)

Rocket Launcher:
Time mod: Animation speed (caps max fire rate. Higher = faster)(Multiplies value)
Float 1: Delay between shot (Seconds)

Lava Ball Emitter
Time Mod: Speed of ball coming out(Multiplies default)
Float 1: Delay in between each ball (Seconds)

Black Maw Emmiter:
Time mod: Animation Speed (Caps fire rate) (Multiplies default)
Float 1: Delay between fire (Seconds)

Orb: (Interestingly enough, orbs have 2 fields!)
Time Mod: Animation Speed (multiplies default)
Float 1: Intensity of field 1 (+ = vortex)
Float 2: Intensity of field 2 (+ = vortex)
Int 1: Range of field 1
Int 2: Range of field 2

4-way launcher
Time Mod: Animations speed (multiplies default)
Float 1: Delay between shot. (Capped by time mod, seconds)

Button: (Side note, buttons can be quite buggy. it's sometimes better to copy one from an existing level)
Start time: Delay between button presses. (-1 is manual)
Time Mod: Animation Speed (multiplies value.)
Float 1: Speed which blocks open (Seconds)
Float 2: Hold time (Seconds)
Int 1: x coordinate of the block to open
Int 2: y coordinate of the block to open

Let me know if I missed anything!

[Patashu]

Hmm, I hadn't thought about having suction fans. Those would be fiendish.

How about units for parameters? Note when things are measured in seconds or tiles or game measurement units or act as a multiplier for something.

Oh, and how do you make button-triggered blocks that come back at a different speed to them appearing, ala 7-19X XOXO?

The final but most time consuming thing would be to have measurements of the default time taken for various things. For instance, I measured the period of the small rotating saw (the one that comes with The End) and found that its period is 1.6666... seconds

[The Pope]

Bookmarked this thread. It's sexy

[kyle273]

Oh, and how do you make button-triggered blocks that come back at a different speed to them appearing, ala 7-19X XOXO?

I looked into it. There's a default value for blocks coming back, and you can't change it.

If you were going for a snake effect, this is still kind of possible. If the closing blocks catch up to the opening blocks, (If your blocks take longer to open than your delay) it creates a 1 block wide gap.


Regarding the spinning saw timing: The little saw takes  about 1.555555 seconds and the large takes 5 seconds To get your ideal speed, divide the default speed by the speed you would like.

[Luraman]

You missed the lasers timing :P

[kyle273]

You missed the lasers timing :P

Indeed I did! Thanks!